Word: vagabonder
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...Vagabond's journey this morning takes us back some hundred and seventeen years. James Fenimore Cooper is about thirty years sour on life; and no less pugnacious and determined than fifteen years ago, when he was gently booted out of Yale for insubordination. But that's all back of him now; as well as his career on a merchant vessel seeing Europe for the first time and later as a midshipman in the United States navy...
...Cooper following that irresistible path of least resistance and just about to settle down to the sweets of married life. As the story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
...Here the Vagabond would take leave of Mr. Cooper for a moment to tell his readers that last evening he did see La Argentina dance and very happily too and after he did see her and talk with her and though he didn't go seeking a pep talk, the conversation did reach a depth when Browning was quoted to the effect that each stumbling block in life could be made a stepping stone. And that little cliche offers a nice transition to what we have to say further of Mr. Cooper...
...Vagabond is at Dora's today. Dora lives in a big brick building out Waverley way. There's a tall iron fence around the grounds and in the Spring time the flowers there are very pretty. But Dora doesn't like flowers; and like so many other things about Dora it is a pity. There are uniformed guards about the place seeing that no undesirables come in and those that...
Today we think we can help them. And the numerous institutions throughout the country bear witness to our hopes. The Vagabond today at 2 will take a strange journey to the Walter E. Fernald School in Waverley and learn more of such unfortunate cases...